Favourite Quotes and Quotations

Terry Pratchett vol 3...

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?"

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.

When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.

Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.

Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?". Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice."

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot".

Doing nothing isn't as easy as it looks, you never know when you've finished.

Actor Leslie Nielson (RIP)

Stephen King vol 1...

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair--the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Obsession is dangerous. It's like a knife in the mind. In some cases... the knife can turn savagely upon the person wielding it... You use the knife carefully, because you know it doesn't care who it cuts.

Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we not be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?

I think that we're all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better--and maybe not all that much better, after all.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

Stephen King vol 2...

I have to remind myself that some birds weren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knew it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But your world is just that much colder and emptier when they're gone. I don't know... maybe I just miss my friend.

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
- Frank Miller

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestions, the raw material of possible poems and histories.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am a part of all I have read.
- John Kieran

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
- George P. Shultz

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.
- Mary Parker Follett

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Terry Pratchett

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."

--- Benjamin Disraeli

You show me a lady in a green hat and I'll show you a bag of marbles :dunno:

.... the batty old dear who used to live down the street from me!

Anonymous vol1...

A closed mind is a good thing to lose.

A closed mouth gathers no feet.

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel good.

A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

A groundless rumor often covers a lot of ground.

A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

"You got new legs, Lieutenant Dan." - Forrest Gump

"Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it." - Bubba Blue, Forrest Gump's buddy

"...And now for something completely different." - Monty Python